The wind does not seem to be blowing in the favor of AT&T cellular phone service users. Now the company has decided to limit the quality of videos on mobile for all of its customers. This is likely to happen in early 2017. The company is all set make good use of a new feature called the Stream Saver for controlling the quality of videos on mobile to DVD resolution of about 480p.
What is the Big Deal?
AT&T Cellular Phone service subscribers definitely have something to worry about in this news. Users can opt out of Stream Saver. However, it is surely going to be enabled for customers by default. Even customers with an unlimited data plan have not been spared.
Reason:
This decision by AT&T is nothing less than Donald Trump’s shocking win in the US Presidential election. AT&T has solid reasons of its own for making this decision. Let’s take a good look at all of them below:
• AT&T Cellular Phone Service customers will be able to keep their data usage under 22 GB.
• The company reserves the right of reducing unlimited data plans when any customers exceeds the data usage of 22 GB a month.
AT&T Says…
The company will surely notify users after their Saver has been activated. According to the announcement made by AT&T, all the users will also be guided about how to switch the Stream Saver off and back on. AT&T customers using an unlimited data plan may welcome this feature wholeheartedly as it helps them keep their data usage way less than 22 GB every month.
"It’s your choice. You can still stream video in higher resolution, when available, whenever you choose," Says AT&T. "You control Stream Saver and can turn it off or back on for any qualified line at any time at myAT&T or Premier for business customers. There is no charge to disable or enable Stream Saver."
Coming to the multi-line accounts, it will feasible to turn Stream Saver off for some lines only. It is likely to be available both for AT&T’s postpaid cell phone plan and AT&T GoPhone prepaid plans.
In addition, Stream Saver will play a huge role in the process of limiting the quality of most video. Some content owners can be held responsible for this decision taken by AT&T. They provide content in a way that Stream Saver fails to detect and then optimize the entire video for its cell phone plan users, said AT&T. Stream Saver is applicable only to cell phone plans. Therefore, video will stream in normal quality through Wi-Fi or residential internet connections.
Summary of the Story:
Stream Saver is very much similar to the system applied by T-Mobile for controlling the quality of video. Stream Saver is here to stay. This is why AT&T cell phone plan users will have the luxury of saving their preferences until you decide to change them. This is going to be a very impactful decision for its customers. And it will be very interesting to see the kind of response this decision gets from customers.
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What is the Big Deal?
AT&T Cellular Phone service subscribers definitely have something to worry about in this news. Users can opt out of Stream Saver. However, it is surely going to be enabled for customers by default. Even customers with an unlimited data plan have not been spared.
Reason:
This decision by AT&T is nothing less than Donald Trump’s shocking win in the US Presidential election. AT&T has solid reasons of its own for making this decision. Let’s take a good look at all of them below:
• AT&T Cellular Phone Service customers will be able to keep their data usage under 22 GB.
• The company reserves the right of reducing unlimited data plans when any customers exceeds the data usage of 22 GB a month.
AT&T Says…
The company will surely notify users after their Saver has been activated. According to the announcement made by AT&T, all the users will also be guided about how to switch the Stream Saver off and back on. AT&T customers using an unlimited data plan may welcome this feature wholeheartedly as it helps them keep their data usage way less than 22 GB every month.
"It’s your choice. You can still stream video in higher resolution, when available, whenever you choose," Says AT&T. "You control Stream Saver and can turn it off or back on for any qualified line at any time at myAT&T or Premier for business customers. There is no charge to disable or enable Stream Saver."
Coming to the multi-line accounts, it will feasible to turn Stream Saver off for some lines only. It is likely to be available both for AT&T’s postpaid cell phone plan and AT&T GoPhone prepaid plans.
In addition, Stream Saver will play a huge role in the process of limiting the quality of most video. Some content owners can be held responsible for this decision taken by AT&T. They provide content in a way that Stream Saver fails to detect and then optimize the entire video for its cell phone plan users, said AT&T. Stream Saver is applicable only to cell phone plans. Therefore, video will stream in normal quality through Wi-Fi or residential internet connections.
Summary of the Story:
Stream Saver is very much similar to the system applied by T-Mobile for controlling the quality of video. Stream Saver is here to stay. This is why AT&T cell phone plan users will have the luxury of saving their preferences until you decide to change them. This is going to be a very impactful decision for its customers. And it will be very interesting to see the kind of response this decision gets from customers.
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